Surprise! Underwater cities, Atlantis, and all that jazz
By Jes Alexander on December 17, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) - What fun! our underwater story has made it all the way to the Huffington Post. To some, that’s like buying a Bedazzler to make your dress for the Queen’s Ball. We’re going Switzerland on this one. Regardless, I wanted to reply over there, but Ariana just couldn’t offer me enough word count. So I’m responding here:
Hi Huffpo.
Thanks for picking up this story and not mentioning where it originated. Stellar work. Thanks especially for proving our point with this story .. let me explain.
Yes, there was indeed an intriguing anomaly discovered. Yes, it does look like ancient ruins. Yes, there are some images the researchers are pining over, because they seem to indicate that there must have been human intervention for these things to exist.
So what do you do? Write it up and hope someone gives you the opportunity (see: FUNDING) to confirm and research. What does a technical piece in an academic journal get you? If you’re lucky, an online subscription to the academic journal, but really not all that often.
In this crazy, mixed up era we live in, you have to sleep with 18 waitresses or be the illegitimate daughter of an overdosed ex-supermodel to get press coverage. People don’t want hopeful, interesting, geeky scholar stories. Oh sure some do, but not most. Honestly, no guys involved with the research were willing to sleep with that many waitresses, nor did any of the women want to birth a love child and then overdose just to get this interesting story some press.
Instead, it was decided to publish some of the strange and colorful images, and write the story with a few holes in it .. Voila, you have mystery and intrigue (don’t make me wiggle my fingers in front of your eyes like Jack Black, here) and people aren’t just reading .. they’re discussing. Seriously, we’re wondering how to package this”backwards learning” and sell it to Scholastic.
Nevertheless, if what you still garnered from what has been published to date is, “It looks like a computer chip,” You’re probably not the people this team is hoping to attract, anyway.
What’s the truth? There’s something really interesting out there in the ocean, and these people, of which I am one, want to go check it out, so they can report to you what’s really there. It could be wondrous. It could be just about anything, but it is something, and some of the elements do imply structure .. or what’s left of some very old structure.
I know what I see. So do a whole lot of really respected scientists, scholars, and researchers. Still, nobody wants to put their name on something until they can see it with their own eyes. Makes sense. You see, as hopeful as some leading people in this field might be, nobody wants to find the next, “Capone’s Vault.” Not in this media climate.
So the story was let out there a certain way, and people took to it, good or bad, like gnats to a porch light. No pun intended, this project just created its own buzz.
Honestly, would you be reading this if the story had originated in the, “Journal of The Society of Underwater Looker-People”? No.
Is it Atlantis? It could possibly be part of something that once existed that through the ages became the “Atlantis” story? Maybe. But nobody will ever know unless this research team has the opportunity (see: FUNDING) to get down there and investigate the site. If someone would fund the initial reconnaissance, the researchers bring back the answers to the questions that everyone keeps asking.
Now, wasn’t that easy?
Joyous wishes for the holidays,
Jes Alexander, Publisher
Herald de Paris et Cie.
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“In this crazy, mixed up era we live in, you have to sleep with 18 waitresses or be the illegitimate daughter of an overdosed ex-supermodel to get press coverage. People don’t want hopeful, interesting, geeky scholar stories. Oh sure some do, but not most. Honestly, no guys involved with the research was willing to sleep with that many waitresses, nor did any of the women want to birth a love child and then overdose just to get this interesting story some press.”
As if saying you think you found an emense ancient underwater city that predates the Pyramids isn’t sexy enough to attract attention… Sorry, but it’s still fishy. I know scores of people that would demand that a discovery like that is looked into… And in this crazy mixed-up era we live in where big foot is “discovered” and being kept in an igloo cooler, I think we all appretiate full diclosure of exactly who it is that is making spectacular claims.
Bien joué Alex! Bonne petite promo pour le Herald mais vous le savez, les plus courtes sont les meilleures.
… and when you quit using names like “Major Tom” and start putting your name behind what you write – just maybe someone might listed.
If I were to make a claim that turns our modern understanding of Human history and development on it’s head, you can bet I’d leave my full name… Or if it was a hoax, maybe I wouldn’t…
I hope the time has come to turn our so called “modern” understanding of Human history on it’s head….We all need it….and it could finally crush the most divisive human invention….religion.
… and when you quit using names like “Major Tom” and start putting your name behind what you write – just maybe someone might listed.
So writer is giving anonymous commenter grief about anonymous comments while defending the anonymous claims of anonymous scientists. Have I got that straight?
Yep. Pretty much, except the part where I am not hiding behind a bogus name.
There’s nothing but your claims.
Just one question: why should we believe you?
Not for the images you have published, I hope.
If scientific enquiry has told us anything remarkable about the human species, it is that we’ve been around a very long time. There have been extraordinary discoveries about man’s past, some of them enigmatic because they predate our period of recorded history. These two facts, man’s time on the planet and the existence of prehistory structures, opens all kinds of possibilities to our imagination, not the least of which is the possibility that mankind has had other advanced civilizations that were destroyed by cataclysmic forces and erased by time. While we have learned a great deal about our past, apparently there is much more to be discovered.
To quote Grant Thompson:
“Mystery solved.
I work with satellite imagery and these patterns appear where the image is very low contrast (I could show you an example from the waters around Manhattan).The patterns are produced by noise in the sensor, exacerbated by compression/expansion and contrast stretching during post-processing. I actually spend quite a lot of time trying to get rid of them…
They are not to be confused with jpeg compression artifacts, which are not as linear/orthogonal. I’ve only seen these patterns from satellites using pushbroom-type scanning sensors.
You get them in imagery from Mars, too, and you can imagine the hoo-ha that that creates…
You can see a sample of sensor noise in the waters around Manhattan here: http://www.eurimage.com/tmp/Atlantis_NY.jpg”
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Look Atlantis was in the Hudson River all along!
Perhaps you could revisit this topic when you have more facts at your disposal. Or you can just continue on with your fraudulent claims….. and FYI:
I posted this yesterday, But it was mysteriously erased… Perhaps as “mysterious” as your claim.
And what about these Google Earth coordinates?
18.344 -64.549
or
18.306 -64.665
They’re good also for Google Maps.